| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Midnight Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[Woody87:24237] Lotus in the Hindu tradition refers to something that can grow up in dirt and mud, yet stay clean. | |
| Coldplay – Clocks Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| To me this song is about spiritual awakening. The lines about ticking clocks and can't be saved, etc, refer to how there's no lasting joy to be found in the world, and how all our efforts to find happiness or fulfillment will one day fail, and "bring us to our knees". Then in that depth of prayer and surrender, it is found that the joy is in simply existing (You are, you are), and that we were always in the home we were subconsciously searching for. | |
| Justin Bieber – Die In Your Arms Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| In true love, the ego dies. Every selfish tendency has to go, and we dissolve in the arms of the Beloved. | |
| Dirty Vegas – Days Go By Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| To me this song is both about a romance, and the divine romance that we're all living. When we lose a true beloved, or the unconditional love we enjoyed as very small children (living in childlike wonder, trust, and joy), it leaves this lingering feeling. Over time, we learn to live without it, and we gradually forget it, but having known the taste of something truly otherworldly, we can never really forget it. It gnaws us and gnaws us, until we finally return to it. And as in this song, some days, it gnaws us worse than others (when things really go wrong is the only time many people really think of making big changes) | |
| Oasis – Don't Look Back in Anger Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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To me this song is about bliss/witness consciousness or Acceptance of What Is. The eye of your mind is the witness rather than the periphery of thoughts, which once slipped into makes life from a war into a play -- like the calm at the eye of a storm. When one is there, one stops recreating events/patterns from the past by stopping thinking of them over and over again (slowly fade away) Once the knack of slipping into acceptance is learned, one's being is effortlessly powerful. By doing nothing you can effect great change (Revolution from my bed). It's easy to say brains went to your head since it sounds so abstract, but it's really powerful and practical. Before I learned this I met a girl who I loved very dearly, so much so that developing myself to reunite with her became my obsession. But after discovering this all encompassing peaceful and content space, love (Sally) can wait -- it doesn't seem to urgent anymore. Sally could also be any sort of goal we expect to bring us fulfillment or what Tony Parsons (another Brit) calls "Wholeness". But the joke is all there is is wholeness. Summertime's in bloom, but we're so busy thinking we miss the small joys right in front of us. In this space of this understanding whatever is happening (anger, sorrow, any other difficulty, happiness) is seen from a distance -- you don't care whether it is night or day. It's like you're watching it happen to someone on a movie screen, and it's just a beautiful part of the script that enriches the whole. When people are in suffering, the natural response is to blame either oneself or others (often our closest people) for arriving at this state. But when you are okay with this moment, without anticipation of a better (that never comes) you don't look back in anger. Every suffering was the universal beloved (every joy too) trying to teach you this ultimate understanding. Your soul slides away -- meaning the fixed concepts you have about the world and yourself. And you just flow. At least today (the understanding can come and go until it's stabilized) Meditation leads to this understanding in time. I learned it from Tony Parsons, and other teachers. He can seem a bit off putting because the mind doesn't want something this simple and blunt, but if it sounds intriguing, discover it for yourself. |
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